The leading edge of what will be a precipitation event that lasts several hours tonight has now pushed as far east as BHM. The precipitation is starting out in many places as sleet…and some of it is rather heavy. It is sleeting now here in Trussville, and reports of sleet have come in from […]
…FOR JAMES’ FULL FORECAST SCROLL DOWN A LITTLE… Radar shows the beginnings of a large mass of precipitation moving into western Alabama. The air very dry over Alabama, so most of this precip (especially east of Tuscaloosa) is not reaching the ground. The temperature in BHM is currently 49 degrees. But, the dewpoint is 15 […]
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player on the right sidebar of the blog. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. THIS AFTERNOON: Despite temperatures in the 45-50 degree range, we have many reports of sleet across West Alabama as […]
The NWS Huntsville has issued a winter weather advisory for their county warning area up in the Tennessee Valley of extreme North Alabama. No doubt there will be some sleet and a few snowflakes up there for the next few hours, but temperatures are well above freezing, and quite frankly I don’t expect any travel […]
On February 13, 1899, one of the coldest airmasses ever observed in the U.S. made it all the way to the Gulf Coast. It was 7 in New Orleans and Pensacola. Mobile dropped to a numbing -1. The reading of -2 at Tallahassee still is the state’s coldest reading ever. Many all time state record […]
Here we go with a Monday morning round up of some bitter low temperatures. The Alabama reports are mainly from the ABC 33/40 Skywatcher network and official NWS reports. We will widen this report to include USA extremes and also some interesting temperatures in the Southern mountains. ALABAMA 15 at Black Creek with a huge […]
An all new edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme video is available in the player on the right sidebar of the blog. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme video on iTunes by clicking here. ANOTHER FRIGID MORNING: Vic Bell, our Skywatcher at Black Creek (northeast of Gadsden in Etowah County) is reporting 15 […]
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